A Landscape Changed Forever

Historical marker location:

190276 Old Oregon Trail Road, Gering, Nebraska

( Marker can be reached from Old Oregon Trail Road (County Road K) 3 miles west of Meadowlark Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.)

Some called it "The Great American Desert". Scotts Bluff National Monument, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Omaha was the birthplace of Malcolm X, the civil rights activist and leader of the Nation of Islam.